Walking to work through grey dawn, snow-sky, pink light leaking in at the horizon.

A construction worker heads on-shift, tool belt shifting and jangling as he walks, half a block ahead of me. He's snacking from a little paper sack of whole-shell peanuts. Every crow in the neighborhood drifts along with him in a noisy black flapping cloud. Now and again he tosses a handful of nuts out in a wide arc and the crow army diverts from him to fall, squabbling, into the road to dispute the spoils. Some crows get nuts. Most don't.

Vetrovec Warning: An instruction or warning given to jurors in circumstances where they
have received testimony from a witness that may be suspect but the
frailties of which may not be self-evident to a juror.
- posted by cjb @ 8:40 AM

Monday, January 27, 2014

"The true remake does not treat the past as a store of models to be followed but as a smoldering problem: the true remake is a haunted one."

(Sven Lutticken, "Planet of the Remakes." Neatly connects the made-in-place & still-images-from-mobile-sequences-I-can't-bear-to-watch arms of my work. Not sure about the thrust of SL's argument concluding with Stan Douglas; the recombinant machinery animating SD's recent film & video feels dead & overdetermined to me, in comparison with early works like Hors-champs, or the very odd photographs-in-various-styles of Midcentury Studio. I'd prefer to consider my tutelary spirits as figures like John Carpenter, Robert Wise, Piranha's Joe Dante, Sturtevant, Phillips, Levine & etc. -- journeymen & women, not auteurs).
- posted by cjb @ 7:56 PM